How Municipal Government in Canada works part 6: Case Study I: the City of Toronto and City Charters

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This is the sixth session in my series on municipal government in Canada. This provides background on the background to the City of Toronto Act, 2006. The City of Toronto was merged in 1997 and invested in no extraordinary powers rather than those which were given to the city under the Municipal Act. A series of events in 1998 regarding computer leasing caused a public inquiry to recommend major changes to the governance and financial arrangements of the city. In 2007, the provincial government introduced the "Stronger City of Toronto, for a Stronger Ontario Act, 2007". This act restricted the governance and the financial powers of the city. The act required the appointment of a closed meeting investigator, integrity commissioner, closed meeting investigator and auditor general for the city. The act also gives the city extraordinary taxation powers which no other municipality in Ontario has. However, the act does not provide a regional government for the city. Days after the proclamation of the Stronger City of Toronto for a Stronger Ontario Act, mirror amendments to the Municipal Act were made to allow other municipality change their governance structure, however the extraordinary taxation powers were not provided for in the new act.
This is the sixth in a ten part series the other parts are:
1. Introduction and history
2. Municipal Structures in Canada
3. Municipal Finance and Powers in Canada
4. Municipal Council and officers
5. Municipal Functions
6. Case Study I: the City of Toronto and City Charters
7. Case Study II: the City of Montreal
8. Municipal restructuring and change in Canada
9. Case Study III: Northern Ontario Municipalities, a case for reform?
10. The Future of Municipalities in Canada and Conclusions

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